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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force on the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic, such alterations to come into force on and after the 1st day of April, 1896:—

PART I.—PASSENGERS, GENERAL FARES, AND REGULATIONS.

SEASON TICKETS.

15. Annual tickets, available over the whole of the New Zealand Government railways for one year from the date of issue, will be charged £50. These tickets are not transferable.

Annual tickets, transferable once a month, available over the whole of the New Zealand Government railways for one year from date of issue, will be charged £55. These tickets will be transferred for business purposes temporarily once in any month during their currency from the holder to a member or employé of the same firm or company on payment of a transfer-fee of 10s. on the occasion of each transfer.

Application for transfer must be made to the District Manager. The ticket to be transferred, together with the transfer-fee, 10s., must be deposited when application for transfer is made.

The £50 and £55 annual tickets are not available by the New Zealand Midland Railway Company’s trains between Greymouth and Brunner.

LOST SEASON TICKETS.

Passengers losing their season tickets should make a written declaration to this effect to the Stationmaster at the station where the original ticket was procured. The Stationmaster will certify to the issue of the ticket, and report to the District Manager, who will arrange for another ticket to be supplied on payment of 10 per cent. of the value of the unexpired period for which the ticket is available. Minimum charge, 2s.; maximum, 20s. This does not apply to commutation tickets.

TRANSFER OF SEASON TICKETS OTHER THAN £50 OR £55 ANNUAL TICKETS.

Season tickets other than £50 or £55 annual tickets will be transferred from the holder to another person on payment of 10 per cent. of the value of the unexpired period for which the ticket is available. Minimum charge, 2s.; maximum, 10s.

Application for transfer must be made to the Stationmaster at the station from which the original season ticket was procured. The ticket to be transferred, together with the transfer-fee, must be deposited when application for transfer is made. This does not apply to commutation tickets.

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

WELLINGTON SECTION.

Class K—Timber.

Rimu from Newman to Wellington will be charged 2s. 8d. per 100 superficial feet.

As witness my hand, this twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

T. THOMPSON,
Acting for Minister for Railways.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Potassium Cyanide.

Department of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1,000 will be paid for the erection of a plant and the manufacture in New Zealand of the first 200 tons of crude cyanide of potassium from colonial produce.

1. The plant must be capable of producing at least 70 tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually.

2. The crude cyanide of potassium so manufactured shall contain at least 70 per cent. of potassium cyanide.

3. The bonus will be paid in two equal instalments, the first instalment being payable on the production of the first 100 tons, and the second instalment on the production of the second 100 tons, of crude cyanide of potassium containing the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

4. On the completion of the plant, notice in writing must be sent to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Wellington, who will appoint an officer to inspect the same, together with the raw material then available from which the cyanide of potassium is proposed to be manufactured.

5. The officer so appointed shall from time to time inspect the process of manufacture, in order that he may satisfy himself that the whole of the cyanide of potassium is being manufactured from material of New Zealand production; and before any bonus is paid such officer will be required to certify that he is satisfied the crude cyanide of potassium is the product of New Zealand material only, and that it contains the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

6. The bonus must be claimed for the first 100 tons on or before the 31st March, 1897, and for the second 100 tons on or before the 30th September, 1898.

J. G. WARD.

Bonus for Destruction of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.

A BONUS of £1,000 is offered for a practical scheme for the destruction of rabbits.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896. Each application must be accompanied by a full description of the means proposed to be adopted.

2. The Government shall appoint a committee of three or more experts, to whom all applications shall be submitted. Such committee shall, after perusal, state what schemes they deem worthy of further consideration, and are satisfied may be used with absolute safety.

On completion of the committee’s preliminary investigations each applicant will be notified of the decision arrived at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further inquired into.

The committee may afterwards inspect the whole or any of the schemes at any place or places within the colony, or may direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for trial at such time and place as they may think fit.

The following shall be a basis of the trial:—

1. A suitable piece of rabbit-infested land shall be allowed to each applicant (of whose scheme the committee have approved), and on which he will have full power to carry out a trial of his scheme for a period not exceeding two years.

2. Each applicant on expiry of the period named shall submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual cost incurred in testing his scheme.

On the expiry of the period named the committee shall as soon as convenient thereafter (should they deem it necessary) make a personal inspection of each applicant’s allotment, and shall take into consideration—

1. The actual cost incurred by each applicant in testing his scheme for the period above mentioned.

2. The result of the work done on each allotment.

On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a report to the Minister on all the schemes which they have examined or tested, and shall state—

1. The scheme which they consider on the whole the most practical, efficient, and economic; and if they consider such scheme worthy of the bonus.

2. Whether, in the event of no one scheme being entitled to the whole bonus, they deem any one worthy of a part, and, if so, how much.

The committee has power to withhold all awards if they think none of the schemes submitted of sufficient importance to merit a bonus.

A sum not exceeding 6d. per acre may be paid to each competitor whose scheme is accepted for test by the committee, and who, in the opinion of the committee, has done work deserving of recognition.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 430.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st November, 1895.

Bonus No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process for dressing New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax) which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes now in use, and which shall, after trial, be found to materially reduce the cost of production, improve the product, or increase the quantity of dressed fibre.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, and must reach him not later than the 31st March, 1897. Each application must be accompanied by a description of the machine or process, particularly stating improvements on present machines or processes, and also the cost at which the machine or process can be supplied.